On 9/23/06, Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sep 23, 2006, at 12:02 PM, Jim Devine wrote:
> On 9/23/06, Carrol Cox wrote:
>> If some of the grimmer accounts of global warming are valid, the
>> future
>> of X (if X is a human purpose) is something of a joke. That warming
>> trend cannot be stopped within capitalist relations of production,
>> and
>> the time frame posited is too brief for transcendance of capitalist
>> relations to be possible.
>
> I take it that you don't think that Richard Branson's billions will
> save the day?
Guess not. I guess we should just kill ourselves now and get it over
with.
Jim Hansen says that we have only a DECADE to save ourselves:
<http://www.climatechange.ca.gov/events/2006_conference/presentations/2006-09-13/2006-09-13_HANSEN.PDF>.
I suppose we won't make it. :-0
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